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Immigrants in the lands of promise : Italians in Buenos Aires and New York City, 1870-1914
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- Creator
- Samuel L. Baily
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1999
- Physical Details
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- xvii, 308 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 0801435625, 1501705016, 0801488826, 1501705024, 9781501705021, 9780801435621, 9781501705014
- OCLC
- ocm55716920, ocm39633528
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [287]-290) and index.
- Prologue: Migration from a participant family's perspective -- Introduction: The comparative study of transnational Italian migration -- Italy and the causes of emigration -- The Italian migrations to Buenos Aires and New York City -- What the immigrants found -- Fare l'America -- Residence patterns and residential mobility -- Family, household, and neighborhood -- Formal institutions before the mass migration era -- Formal institutions during the mass migration era -- Constructing a continuum
Subjects
- Italians -- Argentina -- Buenos Aires -- History.
- Immigrants -- Argentina -- Buenos Aires -- History.
- Italians -- New York (State) -- New York -- History.
- Immigrants -- New York (State) -- New York -- History.
- Italy -- Emigration and immigration -- Case studies.
- Buenos Aires (Argentina) -- Emigration and immigration -- Case studies.
- New York (N.Y.) -- Emigration and immigration -- Case studies.